I’ve been working on Chapter 2, and realized that Nolemana had been taking photos with his own camera, too, and just found a whole bunch of photos to add to the first chapter! See what I get for waiting so long to post this adventure?
We saw this cool railroad stuff near Wallula Gap:
Have you ever heard of it? Well… thanks to this guy, now you do! Thanks so much to 2026 SmugMug, Inc. for giving me so much information about this lovely rail car.
The Tam was built by Pullman about 1923 and was formerly ATSF 33. It was sold by the ATSF and had several private owners including Atlantic Richfield Corporation. Our group purchased the car “on the court house steps” after Southern Pacific had forclosed on the previous owner for non-payment of storage charges. A few modications had been made to the car over the years, but overall it retained much of its original 1923 ambience.
Nothing like being 10,000 months behind on this post!! It’s hard to believe that our third trip to Montana was so long ago! It seems like just yesterday in so many ways, but it was thirteen whole years ago!! I wish I could slow time down sometimes. But here we go again; it was another road trip of a lifetime. I have no idea how long it’s going to take me to get the whole journey down… poco a poco for sure. Because you know, life…
We started out at mile zero on September 19th. We wanted to leave as late as possible to see all the fall foliage on our trip, but early enough so that we could go on a very special highway in Montana before it closed for the winter.
…hakum May is now almost already over!! Just a couple of days ago April was pau. And now try look! Sheesh.
Mourning Doves in the fountain.
Yet another variation of my name. Again, first there was this. Then there was this. And recently, there was this. I got a call from someone who called me Makichonda. Sigh.
On the bright side, spring has sprung. This is our entryway.
This rooster was strolling by across the highway as we waited for our food deliveries to arrive. He was totally unconcerned about all the traffic rushing by.
Well, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? A family member has has some pretty serious stuff going on, so my mind has been elsewhere. After over a month in the hospital and with some long-term healing needing to happen, he’s finally home and my mind is relieved a bit. So here I am.
We’ve had some pretty spectacular sunsets this month.
I took this video years ago and thought it’d be fun to revisit it now, since lambing season is here again. Enjoy!
We left the Wildlife Refuge and headed back along Trout Lake Road, ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the lovely larches. I thought we’d taken videos of driving along the road, but I guess we didn’t. Cuz I can’t find them!
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